Rated PG-13

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES takes place generations after the human population has been decimated by a virus, giving rise to ultra intelligent apes who build a new society. But when a violent group enslaves a peaceful village, one ape seeks to overthrow the group’s king and save his clan.

Of all today’s rebooted sci-fi franchises, the Planet of the Apes series has been the most consistently well-made and thought-provoking. The shades of gray in the ape characters provide us with a safe mirror through which to view our own species.

But in addition to a well-written script, KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES delivers the spectacle with thrilling action sequences and some of the best photorealistic performance-capture CGI around. Your brain just accepts what you see is real now.

It may not be the best of the four modern Planet of the Apes movies, but it is in great company and still a fantastic film on all fronts.

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES gets four Caesars out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.

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